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How To Change MAC Address of Your Chromebook

January 31, 2013 by Dinsan Francis | Updated: September 11, 2020 5 Comments

Well, this is a pretty shameless copy-paste of François Beaufort’s post, but pretty useful, so I couldn’t stop sharing it. Now, there won’t be many who would want to do this, so if you are not the very curious type, you can probably skip this post.

How To Spoof Your Chromebook’s MAC Address

Your Chromebook needs to be on Developer mode for this to work.

– Open your Developer Shell
– Enter sudo ifconfig eth0 down to shutdown your internet connection
– Enter sudo ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:11:22:33:44:55 to change your MAC Address
– Enter sudo ifconfig eth0 up to turn back on your internet connection.

If you are connected to the internet through WiFi, you just need to replace eth0with wlan0 in the instructions below.

Be careful, once you reboot your chrome device, the physical MAC address burnt in your network card will be restored.

Filed Under: Chromebook

About Dinsan Francis

Content Strategist and Digital Minimalist. Loves testing new Chromebook features and writing about them. Favorite Chrome OS Channel is Canary. | Twitter

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  1. D34d 4li3n says

    October 18, 2013 at 11:56 pm

    chronos@localhost / $ sudo ifconfig wlan0 down
    wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device

    Reply
    • amihart says

      January 14, 2014 at 6:23 pm

      Use “sudo ifconfig” to see your devices.
      For me, it’s not “wlan0” it’s “mlan0”.

      Reply
  2. D34d 4li3n says

    October 19, 2013 at 4:55 am

    it does not work

    chronos@localhost / $ sudo ifconfig wlan0 down
    wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device

    Reply
  3. Steph says

    October 18, 2015 at 8:29 am

    Tried this but when I put in the first command it says eth0: error while getting interface flags: no subject device. Does the same thing if I try wlan0. Any advice?

    Reply
    • bonez says

      January 15, 2016 at 3:07 pm

      Steph the same exact thing happened to me I was in developer mode i did everything just like I was supposed to what did you do to fix it ?

      Reply

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